LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Question
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If Yeoman Farmers had slaves, they
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worked along side them on their farms
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beat them all the time
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starved them
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sold them for lots of money
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -White yeoman farmers (who cultivated their own small plots of land) suffered devastating losses. Before the Civil War, many yeomen had concentrated on raising food crops and instead of cash crops like cotton. After the war these farmers found themselves deep in debt, often with buildings destroyed and lands untended.
Detailed explanation-2: -The yeoman farmer–later idealized by Thomas Jefferson and his political supporters–refers to the population of common people like these, who maintained small subsistence farms largely by family labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -(ˈjəʊmən ˈfɑːmə ) noun. history. a man who farmed his own land.
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